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A delayed report on the establishment of a minimum wage for the first time will be tabled in the House of Assembly later this month. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, was expected to bring the report, which will also be used in setting a living wag...

Police officers rejected a 10 per cent pay cut yesterday — despite a warning from the commissioner that refusal would lead to a $4.5 million budget reduction and could spark a crime wave. Stephen Corbishley told officers in a letter before the vote ...

Teaching assistants could be in line for a pay rise in the next Budget in the wake of proper job descriptions being finalised after more than 20 years. The Bermuda Union of Teachers said it was “reasonably optimistic” that a wage increase for classro...

The “real work” starts now to deliver a pay structure in Bermuda that aims to lift low-income workers off the breadline. More than two years after Rolfe Commissiong, a government backbencher, first moved to launch a committee that would consider a li...

Dear Sir, There was a time when the workers of Bermuda had no representation either in Parliament, the workplace or by way of any union recognition — no support at all. I remember the days when my mother went to work in the hotels. She never saw her ...

Lack of a formal mandate stalled negotiations with unions for more than a year under the last Government, the Minister of Government Reform told MPs today. Lovitta Foggo said: “Upon taking office it emerged that while the PSNT had been in ongoing tal...

Dear Sir, I was born in a blue-collar working family and I came up watching my grandmother and mother struggle to make ends meet, putting clothes on our backs and food on the table. As far as I could remember my mother had worked in most of the hote...

Legislators are to debate a Joint Select Committee’s report on Bermuda adopting a living wage, under a motion approved yesterday by both sides of the House. David Burt, the Premier, reiterated the Progressive Labour Party’s pledge to implement a livi...

Dear Sir, I refer to the opinion piece by Robert Stewart published in your newspaper on Friday, April 28. The author expresses “incredulity and sadness that several community leaders would put their reputations behind such incredible ignorance of ba...

I read the reports in The Royal Gazette entitled “Calls for a living wage in Bermuda” of April 22, and “Minimum wage would mean more jobs for Bermudians” of April 24 with a mixture of incredulity and sadness that several community leaders would put t...

Introducing a living wage in Bermuda could be a vital step in addressing economic disparity, according to presentations made to a Parliamentary Joint Select Committee. At a public meeting at St Paul’s Centennial Church Hall on Thursday, a series of s...

Just as Britain raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sanders’s demands for a 50 per cent increase in minimum pay keep winning him votes in the United States, some politicians in one of the world’s most socialist countries, Sweden, are in favour of g...